Copper is a new resource in Minecraft, which contains many craftable items as shown below.
- Lightning rod
- Telescope
- various building parts
You can craft a lighting stick with three copper bars placed in the middle row down. This lighting rod can then be used to deflect lightning during thunderstorms and other things such as powering redstone creations.
Now for the spyglass you will need a copper bar and an amethyst shard which you can get from geodes. Geodes in Minecraft are small areas consisting of approximately three levels that can be found both on the world map and underground.
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You will know when you have found a geode when you have found an outer layer of the tuff block. Inside the inner layer, beyond the tuff blocks, is where you can find the shards in the form of an amethyst cluster shown below.
An amethyst cluster is the fourth stage of an amethyst growth cycle, and it's the only part where you can get shards of it. That said, you can get the shard with a stone pickaxe and more.
Once you get the shard, place it inside a table with a spyglass, and then you can craft a spyglass in Minecraft. The spotting scope can mainly be used to zoom in on an area you want to look at.
After the spyglass, that's about it with what you can do with copper in the game. However, you can also build various building blocks with copper. To do this you will need a stonecutter and place blocks of copper blocks inside.
When placed inside a Stonecutter, you will receive a prompt to craft different types of building pieces. That said, you can craft the copper blocks the stonecutter needs by filling an entire crafting table with copper ingots.
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